as in sonnet
a humorous rhyming composition of five lines
She recited an old limerick which elicited guffaws from the crowd
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Recent Examples of limerick
The team started with sonnets, then went on to limericks.
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Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
In May 1990, third-grader Taylor Burns sent him a handwritten limerick about a mouse found in a stew.
—Emma Balter, Chron, 4 Oct. 2022
Lines 1, 2 and 5 of a limerick rhyme with one another, as do Lines 3 and 4.
—Pat Myers, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
Chris Doyle’s limerick about police SWAT teams, used as an example for Week 1396, is a case in point.
—Pat Myers, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
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Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
In May 1990, third-grader Taylor Burns sent him a handwritten limerick about a mouse found in a stew.
—Emma Balter, Chron, 4 Oct. 2022
Lines 1, 2 and 5 of a limerick rhyme with one another, as do Lines 3 and 4.
—Pat Myers, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
Chris Doyle’s limerick about police SWAT teams, used as an example for Week 1396, is a case in point.
—Pat Myers, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
See all Example Sentences for limerick
Recent Examples of Synonyms for limerick
Noun
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People who spend the day after a date writing sonnets in their Notes app.Olivia Petter, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
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According to Open Source Shakespeare, a web page containing all of the bard’s plays, poems and sonnets, there are 884,421 words in the entire works of Shakespeare.David Hodari, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
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The title that Moss has chosen for her memoir riffs on a poem that May Swenson published in 1978.Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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That last work is a room-size installation that lists the names of 262 deceased men and women next to a neon sign that reads a dream, invoking a poem by Langston Hughes.Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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Da Vek could be seen on campus dressed all in black, including a black Kangol hat, dropping libertarian rhymes, the Harvard Crimson reported in 2006.Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2024
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Footage from the early days of her rap aspirations show her mother, who was also her manager, coaching Megan on the right way to punctuate certain words in her rhymes and shooting ad hoc music videos from lascivious angles.Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
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According to Francisco, the composers represented no less than 30 print collections of solo songs, cantatas, motets, polyphonic works, settings for psalms and masses, a magnificat, a vespers service, a dozen sonatas, and scores for nine operas and other staged works.Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
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A little less than half these psalms are attributed to King David, about a third are anonymous, and the rest are attributed to a variety of authors.Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2023
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There’s that earworm refrain, followed by formidably declarative verses, a powder keg of a chorus and a high-concept bridge.Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
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At the time, many future hip-hop icons were executing their verses in a simplified, nursery rhyme style.Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Limerick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limerick. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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